Full name: The Last Summer of the World: A Novel

Author: Emily Mitchell Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393064872 9780393331943 0393064875 0393331946

In the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army. France is full of poignant memories: his early artistic successes, his marriage, the births of his two daughters. But as he takes up his first command, he learns that his wife Clara has filed suit against her friend, the painter Marion Beckett, charging that she was Steichen's lover in the summer before the war. Flying over the fields of France, Steichen struggles to understand what went wrong in his seemingly idyllic life. His search for answers takes him into his own complex past, toward a painful self-understanding and the discovery of new ways of seeing the world. Told with the elegance of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and the historical rendering of Colm Toibin's The Master, The Last Summer of the World captures the life and heart of a great photographer and of a world beset by war. Similar books: Strange Meeting by Susan Hill Toby's Room by Pat Barker War Story by Derek Robinson The First Casualty by Ben Elton Sixty Minutes for St. George by Alexander Fullerton The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason Life Class by Pat Barker The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker Mr. Mac and Me by Esther Freud The General by C. S. Forester Flanders by Patricia Anthony The Blasphemer by Nigel Farndale The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray